Is Genie safe to use?

Genie integrates 91 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Genie need?

Genie requests 7 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Speech Recognition, and Apple Music.

What data does Genie collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Genie declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers. It collects Identifiers and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Genie have?

Genie integrates 91 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 11 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for payments, 1 for social integration, 31 for infrastructure, and 20 for other.

Does Genie use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Genie includes 2 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM and Facebook SDK. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Genie use Google SDKs?

Yes. Genie includes 21 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase App Check Interop, Firebase Auth, Firebase Auth Interop, Firebase Firestore, Firebase Cloud Messaging, Firebase Storage, Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Core, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Google Sign-In, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, Google Toolbox for Mac, Google Utilities, and FirebaseAppCheck. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Genie use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Genie requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does Genie access your location?

Yes. Genie requests location access. The developer states: "This will be used to deliver personalized ads to you.".

Does Genie access your camera or microphone?

Genie requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need to access your photo album in order to insert photos into the chat". Microphone access is for "We need to access your microphone to record audio for voice recognition". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Genie run in the background?

Yes. Genie registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Genie?

Other productivity apps include 1Password , AdGuard VPN , Wix , Edge Gallery , SHAREit , and AOL . Each app takes a different approach to productivity and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is Genie safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Genie is built with more third-party tracking code than 96% of the productivity we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 128 productivityHeavy

Trackers from other companies12 · a lot

typical productivity: 2.5

Data the app links to you1 type · some

typical productivity: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Genie links 1 category of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Genie ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Identifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among productivity.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one productivity app. Genie sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 91 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 12 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

10analytics

1crash reporting

4push & messaging

74standard libraries

12 of the 91 are third-party trackers. 4 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google Analytics Connector · Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude · Amplitude (Flutter)

Other third partiesanalytics

New Relic

Push & messaging4 · notifications

OneSignal · OneSignalLocation

Standard libraries74 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v10.4.6, 2026-04-05.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 128 productivity in our corpus. Trackers: median 2.5. Data linked to you: median 3.